What are you guys doing to prepare for AI? Backup careers? Talking to kids?

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Anonymous wrote:College education isn't what it used to be.

At one time it was difficult, and made to intentionally fail most who tried to get a BA or higher, similar to sports tryouts, military, etc.

Then along came the participation trophy culture and everyone got a trophy, then everyone was given a degree. Now they are not worth much due to that. So people keep trying to "catch that high" and going for PhD degrees now or multiple degrees. Due to all the soft easy student loans, everyone could do it, and colleges rapidly raised tuitions to ridiculous levels.

It's become a huge scam, just like the insurance scams and the housing market scams. It will all correct itself soon. A.I. might be the catalyst for the college scam at least, making most every job done at a desk obsolete.

I think it's going to be a shock for people like lawyers who, with a few exceptions, are going to obsolete by July 2027. The luckiest will be able to work as AI guides.

I should probably post this in the real estate forums—all those smug Bethesda lawyers in their fancy houses are about to find out what it's like to get foreclosed on.

I'm a lawyer at a nonprofit. I would love if AI was accessible enough and good enough that my clients could advocate for themselves successfully, but I see no signs of that, and certainly not by July 2027.

I agree. It will help lawyers work faster and might take out the lowest tier of lawyers doing document review and commodified work. But, much of being a lawyer is about relationships and helping people understand what they need. I use AI for work and it is great for some things and terrible at other things. It can make templates and take information that it is given and shape into nicely organized paragraphs. But, its pretty crap at making fine distinctions or knowing when and how to use certain formats. I am not that worried that it will replace the entire profession.

Yeah, I don’t think you appreciate the speed at which it’s abilities are doubling. Whatever it is now - and you’re not seeing the highest end stuff - it will be 2x or 3x by the end of the year.

Yay! 3x as much garbage data, mishandled reporting, and unresolved casework!

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Anonymous wrote:My plan is to keep my kids in public school and save as much as possible so my kids will have a big cushion if they can’t get a good white collar job.

AI is going to be doing most of the teaching in 2-3 yrs. They’re not going to get trained for anything useful. Get them into a good performing arts program.

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Anonymous wrote:College education isn't what it used to be.

At one time it was difficult, and made to intentionally fail most who tried to get a BA or higher, similar to sports tryouts, military, etc.

Then along came the participation trophy culture and everyone got a trophy, then everyone was given a degree. Now they are not worth much due to that. So people keep trying to "catch that high" and going for PhD degrees now or multiple degrees. Due to all the soft easy student loans, everyone could do it, and colleges rapidly raised tuitions to ridiculous levels.

It's become a huge scam, just like the insurance scams and the housing market scams. It will all correct itself soon. A.I. might be the catalyst for the college scam at least, making most every job done at a desk obsolete.

I think it's going to be a shock for people like lawyers who, with a few exceptions, are going to obsolete by July 2027. The luckiest will be able to work as AI guides.

I should probably post this in the real estate forums—all those smug Bethesda lawyers in their fancy houses are about to find out what it's like to get foreclosed on.

I'm a lawyer at a nonprofit. I would love if AI was accessible enough and good enough that my clients could advocate for themselves successfully, but I see no signs of that, and certainly not by July 2027.

I agree. It will help lawyers work faster and might take out the lowest tier of lawyers doing document review and commodified work. But, much of being a lawyer is about relationships and helping people understand what they need. I use AI for work and it is great for some things and terrible at other things. It can make templates and take information that it is given and shape into nicely organized paragraphs. But, its pretty crap at making fine distinctions or knowing when and how to use certain formats. I am not that worried that it will replace the entire profession.

Yeah, I don’t think you appreciate the speed at which it’s abilities are doubling. Whatever it is now - and you’re not seeing the highest end stuff - it will be 2x or 3x by the end of the year.

Yay! 3x as much garbage data, mishandled reporting, and unresolved casework!

There are a lot crappy lawyers already but they can’t have their algo tweaked to fix them. Nobody is going to cry about all the lawyers put out of work.

[Anonymous]

Get a solid basic education with critical thinking AKA stay away from worthless woke nonsense.

Take care of your body. Weight training and a cardio.

Whatever job you get live minimalist and invest every penny possible in s&p 500 index fund.

[Anonymous]

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Get a solid basic education with critical thinking AKA stay away from worthless woke nonsense.

Take care of your body. Weight training and a cardio.

Whatever job you get live minimalist and invest every penny possible in s&p 500 index fund.

"woke nonsense" isn't a major, but things that sometimes get accused of it are the least replicable by AI.

avoid anything that relies heavily on computers—finance, accounting, most hard sciences (unless it's applied), law school, engineering, architecture, human resources, etc.

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Get a solid basic education with critical thinking AKA stay away from worthless woke nonsense.

Take care of your body. Weight training and a cardio.

Whatever job you get live minimalist and invest every penny possible in s&p 500 index fund.

"woke nonsense" isn't a major, but things that sometimes get accused of it are the least replicable by AI.

avoid anything that relies heavily on computers—finance, accounting, most hard sciences (unless it's applied), law school, engineering, architecture, human resources, etc.

oh, it goes without saying that any kind of computer science, coding, design, etc. is already cooked

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Get a solid basic education with critical thinking AKA stay away from worthless woke nonsense.

Take care of your body. Weight training and a cardio.

Whatever job you get live minimalist and invest every penny possible in s&p 500 index fund.

Probably add take a basic carpentry class, plumbing class, mechanic class and electrician class. And periodic updates to maintain some competence.

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Anonymous wrote:There’s no AI course in school. Best thing to tell your kids is to not rely on AI and develop critical thinking skills. Jobs with no critical thinking were bound to be cut. Take classes not just to get a high GPA but where you will actually learn something.

The courses are coming from what I’ve read

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Anonymous wrote:There’s no AI course in school. Best thing to tell your kids is to not rely on AI and develop critical thinking skills. Jobs with no critical thinking were bound to be cut. Take classes not just to get a high GPA but where you will actually learn something.

The courses are coming from what I’ve read

Courses in what?

It already writes its own software - there will be a few overseer jobs, dumdum stuff like the guy who stands at the self checkout machines… there aren’t going to b courses tho…

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Anonymous wrote:Performing Arts. Live theater, dance, music have outlasted every technology revolution in human history.

Oh, music is screwed. Live theater and dance are probably pretty good tho. But how many people are going to be attending dance shows when they don't have jobs themselves, or, they're so sucked into whatever AI slop is being fed into the socials they no longer care about live events.

Imagine parents suddenly turning on a dime and after years of prepping their kids for law school now all of a sudden are desperate to get them into Tisch for interpretive dance, argubaly the most AI-proof of jobs.

My dancer daughter was assuming she would go to law school eventually when she gets tired of being a poor starving artist. Lol

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Anonymous wrote:Performing Arts. Live theater, dance, music have outlasted every technology revolution in human history.

Oh, music is screwed. Live theater and dance are probably pretty good tho. But how many people are going to be attending dance shows when they don't have jobs themselves, or, they're so sucked into whatever AI slop is being fed into the socials they no longer care about live events.

Imagine parents suddenly turning on a dime and after years of prepping their kids for law school now all of a sudden are desperate to get them into Tisch for interpretive dance, argubaly the most AI-proof of jobs.

My dancer daughter was assuming she would go to law school eventually when she gets tired of being a poor starving artist. Lol

And now she’s going to be the only one of her friends with a job!

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I have yet to see an example of AI actually replacing a job. In my law practice we were asked to test out an AI research assistant and the results were complete garbage. I think in 2 years the shine will wane and in 5 years we’ll all agree that it was completely oversold.

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Anonymous wrote:I have yet to see an example of AI actually replacing a job. In my law practice we were asked to test out an AI research assistant and the results were complete garbage. I think in 2 years the shine will wane and in 5 years we’ll all agree that it was completely oversold.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/indeed-glassdoor-layoffs-ai-job-search/

There’s no reason to hire a coder anymore… web design isn’t a job anymore… architects, HR types, the army of people who do billing for healthcare and payroll.

It’s getting better and doubling it’s ability every six months. Bookmark this thread - your firm will have 5 percent the staff it has today in 2 years.

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Anonymous wrote:I have yet to see an example of AI actually replacing a job. In my law practice we were asked to test out an AI research assistant and the results were complete garbage. I think in 2 years the shine will wane and in 5 years we’ll all agree that it was completely oversold.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/indeed-glassdoor-layoffs-ai-job-search/

There’s no reason to hire a coder anymore… web design isn’t a job anymore… architects, HR types, the army of people who do billing for healthcare and payroll.

It’s getting better and doubling it’s ability every six months. Bookmark this thread - your firm will have 5 percent the staff it has today in 2 years.

Bookmark my response - Companies who fire a bunch of people and expect AI to replace them are delusional. The smart companies will keep investing in people - at best their employees will use AI as just another tool to be more productive.

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Anonymous wrote:I have yet to see an example of AI actually replacing a job. In my law practice we were asked to test out an AI research assistant and the results were complete garbage. I think in 2 years the shine will wane and in 5 years we’ll all agree that it was completely oversold.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/indeed-glassdoor-layoffs-ai-job-search/

There’s no reason to hire a coder anymore… web design isn’t a job anymore… architects, HR types, the army of people who do billing for healthcare and payroll.

It’s getting better and doubling it’s ability every six months. Bookmark this thread - your firm will have 5 percent the staff it has today in 2 years.

Bookmark my response - Companies who fire a bunch of people and expect AI to replace them are delusional. The smart companies will keep investing in people - at best their employees will use AI as just another tool to be more productive.

Oh maybe it’s stupid but it’s coming! If it can do 80 percent as well for 2 percent of the cost and work 24hrs a day… you’re cooked!